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Wertmuller lines up Loren for tsunami feature
Veteran Italian film director Lina Wertmuller is lining up afilm about the South-East Asia tsunami, which is set to star Sophia Loren.In an interview with Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera, Wertmuller said she plans to shoot the film in thebeach resorts that have been destroyed by the tsunami. The ...
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Indie Circle takes up Smoking
IndieCircle, the pan-European distribution consortium, has pre-boughtmulti-territory rights to Thank You For Smoking, a black comedysatirising the tobacco industry. Thefilm is sold internationally by US-UK combine ContentFilm International and isa co-production between ContentFilm and Room 9 Entertainment. Directed by JasonReitman, it went into production earlier this week.TheIndie Circle deal means ...
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Foreign films struggle at Oz box office
The numberof foreign films released in Australia in 2004 from countries other than the USand the UK nearly doubled compared to 2003.However,the 80 films in question from across the world earned $28.4m (A$36.8m) -down from the $32.6m earned by just 43 foreign films in 2003. Thisequated to average earnings of ...
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KWA takes international rights to Argentine Hours
Madrid-based sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates (KWA)has picked up international rights on Berlin Forum title The Hours Go By(Como Pasan Las Horas) by Argentine director Ines de Oliveira Cezar.The film stars newcomer Guillermo Arengo and TV veteran RoxanaBerco in a minimalist tale following three generations of a family on distinctphysical ...
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Berlinale unveils full Panorama line-up
The Berlin International Film Festival's Panorama section has unveiled the final additions to its lineup, which now comprising 34 features, 18 documentaries and 26 short films inits main programme and Special,Dokumente and Short Film series. The films come from 30 different countries and 28 of themwill be screened as world ...
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Berlin set for Troma invasion
The Berlinale, or officialBerlin film festival, will find itself with some light-hearted competition thisyear.German fans of the Tromaschool of low-budget film-making will be running Tromanale (10-20 Feb).Screenings and events will be held at C-Base, a high-tech grunge location inthe Mitte district, some 2 km from the Berlinale's Potsdamer Platz. "Tromanale ...
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Fire And Sword's Jerzy Hoffman readies Quo Vadis
Jerzy Hoffman, the director of last year's runaway Polish hit With Fire And Sword, is to start shooting next month on the country's biggest production to date, the $12m Quo Vadis.The project, based on the Nobel Prize-winning book by Henryk Sienkiewicz, is scheduled to go into production on May 8. ...
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Sundance: Focus cements Brick purchase
Focus Features has landedits second major acquisition in four days at Sundance, sealing worldwide rights to Rian Johnson's award-winning Brick, a neo-noir set in a contemporary US high school .Buyers had been tracking the film all week but Focus's persistence finally won out hours before Brick went on to ...
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Russia's Return wins BBC Four prize
Russian drama The Returnhas been named winner of the BBC Four World Cinema Award.Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, The Return previously won the 2003 Golden Lion award at theVenice Film Festival. The prize was presented at an awards ceremony held in Londonon Thursday and hosted by Jonathan Ross.
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Italy pledges Euros 74m for local film-making
Silvio Berlusconi'sgovernment has announced that it will hand out around Euros 74m to the localproduction sector in 2005. Local producers now hope that the government promisewill finally put an end to a crippling two-year freeze in state subsidies.Around Euros 54m will beawarded to support feature-length films that are deemed of ...
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Busy CineMart overshadows Rotterdam's gab fest
Rotterdam's CineMartyesterday got off to both a bang and a whimper. Some 900 film producers, buyersand financiers poured into town, many directly from Sundance, to pick throughthe details of some 48 art-house film projects in various stages of completion.And for those not tied up in deal-making CineMart ran the third ...
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Hide And Seek dominates weekend with $22m debut
Twentieth Century Fox'sthriller Hide And Seek opened topat the weekend on an estimated $22m that was some way ahead of last weekend'schampion Are We There Yet', which was shunted into second place on $17m for$39.1m after two weekends.John Polson's picture went out on 3,005 screens and averaged $7,321 on the ...
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Hide And Seek dominates weekend on $22m
TwentiethCentury Fox's thriller Hide And Seekopened top at the weekend on an estimated $22m that was some way ahead of lastweekend's champion Are We There Yet', which was shunted into secondplace on $17m for $39.1m after two weekends.John Polson's picture went out on 3,005 screens and averaged $7,321 on the ...
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Hide And Seek discovers winning form
TwentiethCentury Fox's thriller Hide And Seekopened top at the weekend on an estimated $22m that was some way ahead of lastweekend's champion Are We There Yet', which was shunted into secondplace on $17m for $39.1m after two weekends.John Polson's picture went out on 3,005 screens and averaged $7,321 on the ...
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Eastwood raises his Oscar prospects
Clint Eastwood was votedbest director by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) at the weekend for MillionDollar Baby, strengthening his claim on next month's Academy Award.The DGA honour is a key indicator of Oscar success, with 50 out of 56recipients going on to win it since the inception of the ...
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The Incredibles, National Treasure prosper for BVI
Buena Vista International's(BVI) The Incredibles passed $350m at the international box office atthe weekend and is expected to break into the industry's all-time top 20pantheon within a week.The Pixar hit added an estimated $4.6m for $353.3m and is currently the 22ndbiggest international release of all time, according to results issued ...
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Forty Shades Of Blue wins top prize for US drama at Sundance
IraSachs' intense drama Forty Shades Of Blue was named winner of the America Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and EugeneJarecki's Why We Fight was winnerof the American Documentary Grand Jury Prize as the Sundance Film Festivalwound down to a close on Saturday night.Meanwhilein the inaugural world competition sections, Zeze Gamboa's The ...
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New Zealand's First Sun makes film push with Lies
New Zealand production outfit First Sun has unveiled its debut feature development slate which includes an adaptation of Michelanne Forster's play Castle Of Lies.The play, set in the 1890s, revolves around the true story of charismatic politician William Larnach who blew his brains out in the New Zealand Parliament, an ...
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Elektra passes $14m for Fox International
Fox International'sElektra grossed an estimated $5.5m on 1,721 screens at the weekend after numberone debuts in Spain and string of Asian markets raised its international cumulativetotal to $14.4m.The picture opened on $1.9mon 350 screens in Spain, while other table-topping launches saw it take$556,000 on 155 in Thailand, $462,000 on 109 ...
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On The Outs leads Slamdance winners
A highly successful Slamdance that produced record attendance and severalmajor deals closed on Saturday (29) as LoriSilverbush and Michael Skolnik's drug drama On TheOuts won the Grand Jury SparkyAward for Best Narrative Feature and the corresponding audience award,while Jenny Abel and Jeff Hockett's hoaxer study AbelRaises Cain took the Grand ...